Shoreview Library
4560 Victoria St N
Shoreview, MN 55126
United States
Free and open to the public.
Shoreview Library is pleased to welcome Su Hwang for an evening of readings and conversations on writing. Su will read from her debut collection of poetry, Bodega, alongside poet Kenji Liu.
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Su Hwang
Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega, which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest, where she received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, among other honors, she is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder, with poet Sun Yung Shin, of Poetry Asylum. Su Hwang currently lives in Minneapolis.
This collection offers a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.